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50 Pfennig Spar- und Darlehnskasse
| Issuer | Ländliche Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen u. Umgegend |
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| Year | 1921 |
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| Shape | Rectangular |
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| Obverse description | Jubilee notgeld (Jubiläums-Gutschein) issued to mark the 25th anniversary of the institution, with the issuer's name in Gothic blackletter across the upper register. The central vignette presents a heraldic shield in orange with stylised blue and green flowering plants on leafy stems, flanked on each side by the denomination numeral '50' in red within ornate scrollwork cartouches on a grey-green ground. Below the vignette, three oval panels bear two manuscript signatures and the validity date 'Gültig bis 1.12.1921', with the foundation and jubilee dates '20.3.1896 — 20.3.1921' along the lower margin and the printer's imprint 'Druck: Adolf Forker, Leipzig' at the foot. |
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| Reverse lettering | Us der Vorziet Nocht Kimmt dei Ohnen Procht Deutscher Zukunft Laß Härrlichs bringen maß! Aus der Glaßschen Sammlung vor- und frühgeschichtlicher Altertümer zu Oberheldrungen |
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Ländliche Spar- und Darlehnskasse Oberheldrungen u. Umgegend was a rural cooperative credit union — a Raiffeisen-model institution — serving a cluster of small agricultural villages in the Prussian province of Saxony. These local savings and loan cooperatives issued Notgeld during the severe small-change shortage of 1921 not as speculative collectibles but as genuine transactional currency, distributed among members and local merchants who had no other means of making change.
Adolf Forker of Leipzig produced enormous quantities of small-denomination emergency notes for provincial cooperatives during this period, and the print quality reflects that volume. Oberheldrungen itself had a population well under a thousand.